The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Scud. if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. George. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. It makes my blood so hot I feel my heart hiss. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. Top a bit! I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. My dear husband never kept any accounts, and we scarcely know in what condition the estate really is. Whoever said so lied. You begged me to call this morning. After various slaves are auctioned off, George and the buyers are shocked to see Zoe up on the stand. Solon. M'Closky. Boucicaults The Octoroon famous quotes & sayings: Ivan Glasenberg: We work. Just because my grandfather wasn't some broken-down Virginia transplant, or a stingy old Creole, I ain't fit to sit down with the same meat with them. No; not you---George. Mr. Peyton, I presume you have hesitated to make this avowal because you feared, in the present condition of affairs here, your object might be misconstrued, and that your attention was rather to my fortune than myself. Let me relate you the worst cases. Mrs. P.O, George,---my son, let me call you,---I do not speak for my own sake, nor for the loss of the estate, but for the poor people here; they will be sold, divided, and taken away---they have been born here. What, on Terrebonne? [Sitting,R. C.] A pretty mess you've got this estate in---. If that old nigger ain't asleep, I'm blamed. Gentlemen, the sale takes place at three. But how pale she looks, and she trembles so. Come, Mr. Thibodeaux, a man has a chance once in his life---here's yours. A Room in Mrs. Peyton's house; entrances,R.U.E.*andL.U.E.---An Auction Bill stuck up,*L.---chairs,C.,*and tables,*R. and L. Pete. Hold on now! I can't introduce any darned improvement there. Whar's Paul, Wahnotee? Pete, speak to the red-skin. [Opens desk.] This gal and them children belong to that boy Solon there. [Knocks.] [Who has been looking about the camera.] Dora. Says he'll go if I'll go with him. Dido. and will despise me, spurn me, loathe me, when he learns who, what, he has so loved.---[Aloud.] Ugh' ach! Then I will go to a parlor house and have them top up a bathtub with French champagne and I will strip and dive into it with a bare-assed blonde and a redhead and an octoroon and the four of us will get completely presoginated and laugh and let long bubbly farts at hell and baptize each other in the name of the Trick, the Prick, and the Piper-Heidsick. faded---is it not? [Looks off.] M'Closky. Yah! When he speaks to one he does it so easy, so gentle; it isn't bar-room style; love lined with drinks, sighs tinged with tobacco---and they say all the women in Paris were in love with him, which I feelIshall be; stop fanning me; what nice boots he wears. Do you want me to stop here and bid for it? Dora. Dora. EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. [Rising.] [R.U.E.] I was raised on dis yar plantation---neber see no door in it---always open, sar, for stranger to walk in. Author: Mike Watt. you remind me so much of your uncle, the judge. "No. Weenee Paul. tink anybody wants you to cry? Lift me; so---[George*raises her head*]---let me look at you, that your face may be the last I see of this world. EnterZoe,L.U.E.,very pale, and stands on table.---M'Closkyhitherto has taken no interest in the sale, now turns his chair. there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? I can go no farther. George reluctantly agrees. I will! O, golly! [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. Jacob M'Closky, 'twas you murdered that boy! What's here? Synopsis. Scud. Good morning, Colonel. Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! If he caught the fever, were stung by a snake, or possessed of any other poisonous or unclean thing, you could pity, tend, love him through it, and for your gentle care he would love you in return. Yes---me and Co.---we done it; but, as you were senior partner in the concern, I reckon you got the big lick. Why, Dora, what's the matter? Fire!---one, two, three. [*Takes fan from*Minnie.] Ratts. [Opens it.] Dear George, you now see what a miserable thing I am. Zoe. Dat's me---yer, I'm comin'---stand around dar. Buy me, Mas'r Ratts, do buy me, sar? Zoe. Yes! Zoe. Scud. come home---there are strangers in the house. Point. They owed him over fifty thousand dollars. The devil I am! Dora. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. Scud. What's de use of your takin' it kind, and comfortin' de missus heart, if Minnie dere, and Louise, and Marie, and Julie is to spile it? Zoe. [Slowly lowering his whip,] Darn you, red skin, I'll pay you off some day, both of ye. One of them is prepared with a self-developing liquid that I've invented. I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. Scud. [Searching him.] [Zoe sings without,L.]. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. Dora. I have a restorative here---will you poor it in the glass? Why, I was dreaming---curse it! Go now, George---leave me---take her with you. Here are evidences of the crime; this rum-bottle half emptied---this photographic apparatus smashed---and there are marks of blood and footsteps around the shed. You can't control everything in life Gemma Burgess, Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty, transparent fingers. Grace. Back at Terrebonne, Zoe returns but with a sad heart, as she knows that she and George can never be together. Scud. Mrs. P.Sellyourself, George! Salem's looking a kinder hollowed out. Scud. George says he can "overcome the obstacle" (43), but Zoe protests that they cannot be together. Lafouche. With your New England hypocrisy, you would persuade yourself it was this family alone you cared for; it ain't---you know it ain't---'tis the "Octoroon;" and you love her as I do; and you hate me because I'm your rival---that's where the tears come from, Salem Scudder, if you ever shed any---that's where the shoe pinches. Scud. No; but I loved you so, I could not bear my fate; and then I stood your heart and hers. If she could not accept me, who could? It won't do! I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. [DrivesChildrenaway; in escaping they tumble against and trip upSolon,who falls with tray; theChildrensteal the bananas and rolls that fall about.]. [Wrenches it from him.] All right, Judge; I thought there was a mistake. It is in the hearts of brave men, who can tell right from wrong, and from whom justice can't be bought. O, my---my heart! The machine can't err---you may mistake your phiz but the apparatus don't." [Puts his head under the darkening apron.] Paul. *EnterThibodeauxand*Sunnyside,R.U.E. Thibo. Wal, as it consarns you, perhaps you better had. [Advances.] [Reads.] M'Closky. I'll sweep these Peytons from this section of the country. | Sitemap |. The Octoroon was a controversial play on both sides of the slavery debate when it debuted, as both abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates believed the play took the other camp's side. Pete, as you came here, did you pass Paul and the Indian with the letter-bags? Zoe. The play was adapted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as An Octoroon in 2014. What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. Sunny. Scud. Ratts. Dido. In cash? Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? Point. Zoe, I love you none the less; this knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I can overcome the obstacle. Mrs. P.O, Salem! Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). Mrs. P.O, sir, I don't value the place for its price, but for the many happy days I've spent here; that landscape, flat and uninteresting though it may be, is full of charm for me; those poor people, born around me, growing up about my heart, have bounded my view of life; and now to lose that homely scene, lose their black, ungainly faces; O, sir, perhaps you should be as old as I am, to feel as I do, when my past life is torn away from me. drop dat banana! M'Closky. Hush! And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. I've been to the negro quarters. I'm 'most afraid to take Wahnotee to the shed, there's rum there. The child---'tis he! You have been tried---honestly tried and convicted. [L.] Yelping hound---take that. Scud. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] Share with your friends. Let her pass! In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. Mrs. P.I expect an important letter from Liverpool; away with you, Paul; bring the mail-bags here. if I stop here, I shall hug her right off. George. Ratts. [To the men.] You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? the rat's out. Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. Say, Mas'r Scudder, take me in dat telescope? Work! I didn't know whether they are completely honest. No---no. Dora then reappears and bids on Zoe she has sold her own plantation in order to rescue Terrebonne. With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. Didn't I? What's the matter, Ratts? There are no witnesses but a rum bottle and an old machine. Paul. I do, but I can't do it. Dem doctors ain't no 'count; dey don't know nuffin. George. I say, then, air you honest men? Scud. I feel that I departed amid universal and sincere regret. Dion Boucicault Quotes - BrainyQuote. Mrs. P.She need not keep us waiting breakfast, though. Pete. Stealing a lantern, he sets fire to the steamship that had the slaves on board. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] I'll murder this yer crowd, [*He chases*Childrenabout; they leap over railing at back. George goes to Dora and begins to propose to her; while he is doing so, however, he has a change of heart and decides not to lie to her. As they exit,M'Closkyrises from behind rock,R.,*and looks after them. Dora. Mrs. P.George, I can't spare Paul for an hour or two; he must run over to the landing; the steamer from New Orleans passed up the river last night, and if there's a mail they have thrown it ashore. E. Paul. Despite the happiness Zoe stands dying and the play ends with her death on the sitting-room couch and George kneeling beside her. The list of your slaves is incomplete---it wants one. Point. Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? Nebber mind, sar, we bring good news---it won't spile for de keeping. Poor fellow, he has lost all. McClosky intercepts a young slave boy, Paul, who is bringing a mailbag to the house which contains a letter from one of Judge Peyton's old debtors. Happy to read and share the best inspirational Boucicault The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. What? Sunny. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. 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